In Phuket, Thailand Vegetarian Festival is held. At this festival people introduce themselves in a state of deep trance and then make a shocking and extreme piercings.

The festival takes place in ten days and includes nine street processions, which bring together people with prorezannymii parts of the body. The range of products for piercing it defies the imagination and weapons, food and other miscellaneous items.

Ritual Body Piercing in their opinion should help them to attract the spirit to eat only vegetarian food.
The festival is of Chinese origin and is carried out in the ninth month in Chinese lunar calendar. According to the participants of the festival, he cleanses the body.